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It’s All in the Name: A Character-Based Approach to Infer Religion

Chaturvedi, Rochana, Chaturvedi, Sugat·2024·Political Analysis
DOI 10.1017/pan.2023.6
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Large-scale microdata on group identity are critical for studies on identity politics and violence but remain largely unavailable for developing countries. We use personal names to infer religion in South Asia—where religion is a salient social division, and yet, disaggregated data on it are scarce. Existing work predicts religion using a dictionary-based method and, therefore, cannot classify unseen names. We provide character-based machine-learning models that can classify unseen names too with high accuracy. Our models are also much faster and, hence, scalable to large datasets. We explain the classification decisions of one of our models using the layer-wise relevance propagation technique. The character patterns learned by the classifier are rooted in the linguistic origins of names. We apply these to infer the religion of electoral candidates using historical data on Indian elections and observe a trend of declining Muslim representation. Our approach can be used to detect identity groups across the world for whom the underlying names might have different linguistic roots.

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Figure 2 Density plots of absolute difference in reported and estimated religious counts per 1,000 people.
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Figure 3 Muslim representation in Indian Politics during 1962-2021.
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Authors
Chaturvedi, R., & Chaturvedi, S.
ORCID
Venue
Political Analysis
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2023-03-23
Volume
32
Issue
1
Pages
34-49
ISSN
  • 1047-1987
  • 1476-4989
DOI
10.1017/pan.2023.6
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18
References
91
Language
en
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (unspecified)

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